Martin Luther King III

The long-standing squabbles among the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s children may soon be over – or at least hidden from public view.

On Thursday, the slain civil rights icon’s sons dropped their lawsuit against the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, the nonprofit group set up by their mother, Coretta Scott King, that is run by their sister, Bernice Albertine King.

Days before the case was to go to trial, Dexter Scott King, chief executive of the Estate of Martin Luther King Jr. Inc., released a statement saying he had instructed the estate’s attorneys to withdraw its civil action against the King Center. His brother,...

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The long-standing squabbles among the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s children may soon be over – or at least hidden from public view.
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